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After completing a 2-year business program at McTavish Business College, one of Jenny's first jobs was as office manager for the newly formed Alberta Native Communications Society, whose mandate was to produce and provide communications of all media (print, radio, TV, film) from an Indigenous perspective to the Indigenous peoples of Alberta.
Pages in category "Women indigenous leaders in Canada" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC; French: Association des femmes autochtones du Canada [AFAC]) is a national Indigenous organization representing the political voice of Indigenous women, girls, and gender-diverse people in Canada, inclusive of First Nations on and off reserve, status and non-status, disenfranchised, Métis, and Inuit.
The History of women in Canada is the study of the historical experiences of women living in Canada and the laws and legislation affecting Canadian women. In colonial period of Canadian history, Indigenous women's roles were often challenged by Christian missionaries, and their marriages to European fur traders often brought their communities into greater contact with the outside world.
Groups such as the National Indian Brotherhood (now the Assembly of First Nations) took a stance against the women in Corbiere v Canada, resulting in Mary Two-Axe Early and 60 other Indigenous women making their case against gender discrimination in the international arena, only to return home and find that they had been evicted from their ...
The awards were first established in 1993 in conjunction with the United Nations declaring the 1990s "International Decade of the World's Indigenous peoples". [5] June 21 is Canada's National Aboriginal Day, in recognition of the cultural contributions made by Canada's indigenous population.
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Cheryl Suzack and Shari M. Huhndorf argue in Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism and Culture that: "Although Indigenous feminism is a nascent field of scholarly inquiry, it has arisen from histories of women's activism and culture that have aimed to combat gender discrimination, secure social justice for Indigenous women, and ...